In comparing the time period of the story to our society today, it is likely to find many similarities and differences. It is thought of that the word “success” alone can be thought to have a completely different meaning today than it did in the 1800’s. In today’s world, people tend to set much higher goals and expectations for themselves, whereas, in Ragged Dick, it was more of a day-to-day typed situation. It is definitely a heroic act to set up a dream and tend to achieve it, because there is a fine line between a dreamer and a successful person. A dreamer is a person that daydream’s without the aim of act towards it. But a heroic person like what the main character in the novel of Ragged Dick is that he worked so hard and started from a